If anybody already has it downloaded and is willing to upload it to a faster mirror, I would greatly appreciate it. Preferrably after running make source so I don't have to wait 2 years while it downloads a toolchain from the same server .

And you can refer to buildroot dl files to download dl files, md5sum of buildroot-dl.7z is 8eadad3ec1c93584c246b7ac529d363e. Extract buildroot-dl.7z to directory buildroot/dl,so you can save a lot of downloading time.

As far as I can tell amlogic's 4.9 kernel does not contain the necessary modules for hardware accelerated video encoding & decoding. I'm actually rolling back to kernel 3.14 because of it. I would love to get confirmation of this from Khadas directly.

EDIT: Maybe amlogic did a lot of refactoring and renamed the video processing modules?

As far as I can tell amlogic's 4.9 kernel does not contain the necessary modules for hardware accelerated video encoding & decoding. I'm actually rolling back to kernel 3.14 because of it. I would love to get confirmation of this from Khadas directly.

EDIT: Maybe amlogic did a lot of refactoring and renamed the video processing modules?

I have read the amlogic doc to this buildroot:Amlogic PDF to Kernel4.9_BuildrootThere were checks of GSTPlayer and KMPlayer saying the Kernel is compatible with various resolutions and media formats.

I have found some 64bit libs for mali450buildroot/package/meson-mali/lib/arm64/r7p0/m450/Also some Amlogic driversbuildroot_openlinux/kernel/aml-4.9/drivers/amlogic/media/video_processor/

Kernel config buildroot/configs/mesongxl_p212_32_kernel49_release_defconfigHave also some hints for GPU support:BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=yBR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_LOCAL_VERSION_VALUE="amlogic-4.9-dev"BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_LOCAL=yBR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_LOCAL_PATH="$(TOPDIR)/../kernel/aml-4.9"BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DEFCONFIG="meson64"BR2_TARGET_BOARD_PLATFORM="meson8"BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_IMAGE_LOADADDR="0x1008000"BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_PATCH="amlogic-4.9"BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DTS_SUPPORT=yBR2_LINUX_KERNEL_USE_INTREE_DTS=yBR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INTREE_DTS_NAME="gxl_p212_2g"BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_AMLOGIC_DTD=yBR2_LINUX_KERNEL_ANDROID_FORMAT=yBR2_LINUX_KERNEL_IMAGE=yBR2_PACKAGE_GPU=yBR2_PACKAGE_GPU_LOCAL=yBR2_PACKAGE_GPU_STANDALONE=yBR2_PACKAGE_GPU_VERSION="r7p0"BR2_PACKAGE_GPU_LOCAL_PATH="$(TOPDIR)/../hardware/aml-3.14/arm/gpu"BR2_PACKAGE_MESON_MALI_MODEL="m450"BR2_PACKAGE_MESON_MALI_VERSION="r7p0"BR2_PACKAGE_WIFI_FW=y